Lifting device for clothes-drying reels.



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, l J. E. WENDLING. LIETING DEVICE EOE CLOTHES DEYING EEELS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10l 1904.

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JOSEPH G. WENDLING, OF GHEBOYGAN, MICHIGAN.

LIFTlNG DEVICE FOR CLOTHES-DRYING REELS.

Specication of Letters Patent.

p p Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed December 10,1904. Serial No. 236,377.

companying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to clothes drying reels; it has for its object an improved means for lifting and lowering the reel head.

In the drawings Figure 1, is a perspectiveof a complete reel. Fig. 2, is a cross section of the clutch, one such clutch is used to lift and one is used to sustain the reel. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the reel arms, showing the pins thereon.

1 indicates a post of any suitable character to which is secured guide brackets 3 and 4, for the stem of a reel; to the post are also secured holding brackets 5 and 6, one of which 5, holds a sustaining clutch, and the other of which 6, holds the actuating lever 7, of a lifting clutch. The lifting clutch and the sustaining clutch are similar in construction and each consists of a clutch loop 8 and 8a respectively, with a stem 9 and 9a respectively. The loop 8 embraces the stem 10 of the reel the stem 9 of the loop of the sustaining clutch extends through a slot in the bracket 'and is provided on the projecting end with a pull 1l. The loop 8 is somewhat larger in diameterv than the stem l0 of the reel and clutches the stem by the torsional well known clutch action between a loop held from some fixed position in a way to oscillate on a diameter or on an axis parallel to a diameter, and a bar which passes through the loop, and also through guides which prevent the bar from oscillating with the loop.

The lifting clutch 8a, is a loop similar to the holding clutch, but its stem is linked to a lever 7, pivoted on the bracket 6, and the oscillation of the lever serves to actuate the reel stem and lift the reel which is held in its elevated position by the clutch 8. The reel head is made with four arms a, b, c, CZ, the innerends of which are secured by straps to a ring e; The four arms are tied together, and

each arm is braced to a ring f. The ring f rests above the end g ofthe stem l0, and engages around a pin K, which is driven down into the hollow ofthe stem 10. Below the ring e is a collar 4 held to the stem 10 by a pin. In each arm of the reel head are a number of pins m, each of which is provided with an overhanging extended head to confine the line in the opening underneath the head above the arm and at the side of the pin; the pins are arranged in pairs, with the members of each pair having their heads turned parallel with the axis ofthe arm and in opposing directions, that is, the first one from the center ofthe reel out has the head turned toward the center of the reel and the second pin has the head turned radially outward from the center of the reel.

What I claim is In a device of the character described, in combination with a supporting post, a stem, guides upon said post, through which said stem passes, brackets upon said post intermediate said guides and adjacent thereto, a locking clutch-loop engaging the upper part of said, stem and having a lateral extension which engages a slotted portion in the end of the upper kone of said brackets, anv operating device attached to the end of said extension, a lifting clutch-loop engaging the lower part of said stem, an extension upon said lifting clutch loop and a link connecting the outer extremity of said extension and the inner extremity of a hand-lever pivoted at the extreme outer end of the lower one of the before mentioned brackets.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specication in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH G. VVENDLING. Witnesses:

C. S. REILLEY, FRANK KENNEY. 

